The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

The Anglo-Saxon period stretched over 600 years, from 410 to 1066... The early settlers kept to small tribal groups, forming kingdoms and sub-kingdoms. By the ninth century, the country was ...

A History of the Beginnings of England,’ historian Marc Morris recounts the turbulent era between the abandonment of Britain ...

A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel mysteriously embedded in an Anglo-Saxon burial from the early 6th century A.D. The burial is one of 49 that were interred ...

which will go on display in the library's Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition in the autumn. Mr Crossley-Holland - for whom the monsters are like "humans gone wrong" and "terrifying because of that ...

This piece of Anglo-Saxon high tech deception turned the surfaces ... For instance, in 674/675 AD, the kingdom of Mercia was defeated by its northern neighbour, the kingdom of Northumbria, which ...

Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian before the Vikings settled, according to new studies. Cambridge University researchers analysed more than 2,000 skeletons and found elites ate no more meat ...

It is only higher education institution in the UK to offer a Viking Studies course but now Nottingham wants to rename an ...

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head. An Anglo-Saxon girl who died ...

This story appears in the November 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day, or perhaps one night, in the late seventh century an unknown party traveled along an old Roman road that cut ...